AI Data Centers: What to Know About Their Water and Energy UseWhen people find out I'm a journalist who covers AI, they often ask about the drastic energy consumption of AI data centers. Are these centers using up all of our drinking water? How is this tech affecting the environment? Is AI going to kill us all? The questions range from curious to downright dystopian. Sam Altman, the CEO of...

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Meta Enters the AI Shopping Wars to Challenge ChatGPT and Gemini Mark Zuckerberg's company begins a partial rollout of its agentic AI shopping research tool. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being somewhat fascinated by...

DAG: How photography helped the British empire classify IndiaDAGFemale dancers or nautch girls, early 20th Century. The photograph was taken by Edward Taurines, one of the first European photographers with a studio in Bombay (now Mumbai) which specialised in photographs showcasing the city for a Western audience. In the second half of the 19th Century, photography became one of the British...

The People Shaping How We Think About AI Have a Responsibility to Tell the Whole TruthIn one of the opening shots of Un Chien Andalou, a 1929 French film co-written by Salvador Dalí often cited as one of the first surrealist films, a young woman stares directly at the camera as a razor blade slices across her eye. OK, she didn't actually have her eye slit open, thanks to movie magic and...